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Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By : Eren Kalelioğlu
Book Image

Implementing Atlassian Confluence

By: Eren Kalelioğlu

Overview of this book

Implementing Atlassian Confluence is an all-encompassing guide to the essential concepts of distributed work and leveraging Confluence to create a world-class collaboration environment. This book begins with an introduction to enterprise collaboration concepts and explains how to set up Confluence. You’ll quickly proceed to creating and maintaining dynamic content, effective cross-functional collaboration, and employing Confluence applications in scenarios such as software project management and knowledge bases. You’ll discover how to use Jira Service Management together with Confluence, set up personal spaces, implement centralized user management, address security risks, and explore suggested solutions on Confluence. Furthermore, you’ll integrate and extend Confluence with other Atlassian and third-party software. The book also contains tips and guidance on managing Confluence adoption, enabling you to focus on your team and provide them with a state-of-the-art remote collaboration environment. Complete with practical business scenarios, best practices, and examples, this book will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of Atlassian Confluence’s capabilities for enhancing collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Preparing for Confluence
7
Part 2:Building a Real Confluence Site
13
Part 3:Scaling Business

Exploring the fundamentals of a knowledge base

A knowledge base isn’t just a collection of articles; it is an organized repository of pages, spaces, and labels. Pages form the fundamental unit of a knowledge base and are individual articles or documents on a specific topic. Each page contains a separate piece of knowledge, presented in an easy-to-understand format. A marketing team, for instance, might have a page dedicated to outlining the steps to conduct effective market research.

Spaces are the larger categories or sections under which these pages are organized. A space can represent a department, a project, or a significant organizational function. For example, in a software development team’s knowledge base, spaces might be dedicated to frontend development, backend development, and quality assurance. Each of these spaces would house numerous pages relevant to the respective topic.

Labels, conversely, are tags used for further categorization. They are flexible...